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/ 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION * OF THE UNITEO STATES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
FILE: B-195180 T March , 1980
Cathryn P. Seaburn - Expenses f Return Travel
MATTER OF: i
and Transportation from Alaska ailure to
Fulfill Government Service Agreement]
DIGEST: 1. U.S. Customs Service requires employee
transferred to Alaska to serve 24 months there
in order to be entitled to reimbursement of
travel and transportation expenses to place of
actual residence at time of transfer unless he
returns earlier for reasons beyond his control and
acceptable to agency. Claim of former employee
of Customs Service was properly denied where
agency presented reasonable basis for finding that
employee's premature return and separation in
circumstances presented was for reasons within
her control and not acceptable to Government.
2. Although U. S. Customs Service granted employee
in Alaska leave without pay to return to actual
residence for personal reasons, employee is not
entitled to reimbursement of travel and transpor-
tation expenses. There was reasonable basis for
agency determination that employee did not return
to Alaska to complete required 24 months of
service there for personal reasons which were
not acceptable to it and GAO will uphold such
determination absent evidence of arbitrary or
capricious action by agency.
In this action we consider the claim of Mrs. Cathryn P.
Seaburn, a former employee of the U. S. Customs Serviee
Department of the Treasury, for return travel and transpor
tation expenses following a period of official duty in Alaska.
The record indicates that Mrs. Seaburn [the former
Cathryn P. White] was transferred on March 26, 1978, from
Tampa, Florida, to Anchorage, Alaska, in connection with her
continued employment with the Customs Service. Mrs. Seaburn
reported to her new duty station effective March 27, 1978. In
January 1979, Mrs. Seaburn requested and was granted leave
without pay (LWOP) for 3 months effective beginning January28,
1979. Subsequently, Mrs. Seaburn returned to her actual resi-
dence in Florida and resigned from Government service effective
April 30, 1979.
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